Category Archives: Canadian Press

TOKYO - Japan has a new cafe where customers can enjoy coffee brewed and served by a robot barista. The robot named Sawyer debuted this week at Henna Cafe in Tokyo’s downtown business and shoppi...

NEW ORLEANS - Alabama made news with its good-natured dig at New Orleans - billboards touting Mobile as the home of America’s original Mardi Gras celebration. The billboards near New Orleans and...

Colin Kaepernick’s first two “protests” drew scant attention. He sat on the bench, out of uniform, virtually unnoticed. His third got some buzz after a reporter tweeted a picture of ...

PORTLAND, Maine - Donald Crisman has more than a half-century of Super Bowl memories behind him, from taking a 24-hour train ride to Super Bowl II to seeing his beloved New England Patriots win in ove...

WHITEHORSE - Twenty-six mushers and their dogs have one more day of rest before the teams hit the trail for the 35th annual Yukon Quest sled dog race, renowned as one of the toughest such events on th...

TORONTO - Canada will send 225 athletes and 87 coaches to the Pyeongchang Olympics, its largest-ever delegation for a Winter Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee says the team of athletes includes 12...

CROZET, Va. - The lead investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board said it’s too early to say whether the safety arms at a rural Virginia crossing were working when a train carryin...

HONOLULU - A woman accused of deliberately driving off a Hawaii cliff and killing her identical twin sister was acquitted of murder Thursday. Second Circuit Judge Peter Cahill found Alexandria Duval n...

FARGO, N.D. - A North Dakota woman who earlier admitted killing a pregnant neighbour to get her baby did it by cutting the baby from the mother’s womb as she faded in and out of consciousness, p...

HONG KONG - The video shows students at the so-called “female morality school” in northeastern China getting up at 4:30 a.m. to scrub floors and being taught not to resist if their husband...